Colt Group
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
12 November 2014 | Alex Hawkes – Capacity Magazine
Colt Group has acquired Asian network and data centre service provider KVH for €130.3 million.
The move will provide the European operator with a footprint of nine data centre facilities across Asia, including Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea, as well as access to KVH's Information Service Platform which serves the ICT services market. It is also thought to further enhance Colt's ability to serve multinational enterprise customers.
The two companies are said to operate complementary businesses with similar technology and platforms, business models and product sets.
KVH's business is well known to Colt's key management. KVH is owned by FMR, FIL and associates of FMR and FIL, which are also shareholders of Colt. In 2009, the two companies partnered to support electronic trading applications for the global financial and securities industry, while in 2013, the two companies partnered to extend KVH's IaaS cloud services across Europe